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View More NewsThe number of tokenized stock holders has more than doubled over the past month to 1.31 million, according to RWA.xyz data.Monthly transfer volume surged nearly 180% over the same period to $23.13 billion, while monthly active addresses increased 34.62% to nearly 572,000. The total distributed value of tokenized stocks also rose 5.9% to $2.38 billion.At the time of writing, Ondo leads the market with about $872 million in distributed value, followed by Kraken’s xStocks at $557.8 million and Binance’s bStocks at $521.8 million. BStocks launched in June and is already within roughly $36 million of xStocks in distributed value.According to…
Jeff Merkley has a plan to save the republic from Donald Trump’s “authoritarian playbook”, or so says the senator from Oregon. “This is a president trying to become a strongman authoritarian,” said Merkley on the On NOTUS podcast this week. “If we don’t repair the Constitution, we don’t have a republic.” His “For Our Republic Act”, which was introduced earlier this month, is a sprawling piece of legislation that aims at reversing many of the president’s claims of executive authority and clamping down on some of the more novel forms of corruption we’ve seen under the president’s second term. Its…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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In brief SharpLink will stake $200 million of Ether through Lido’s liquid-staking protocol. The move is about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of the ~889,000…
A Virginia man’s anti-police license plate is at the center of what could be a landmark First Amendment case, following a federal appeals court…
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Tether has acquired SoftBank Group’s stake in Twenty One Capital, the Bitcoin treasury company that is expanding into lending, mining and capital markets services,…
In brief Qwen 3.7 Max debuted on Arena AI on May 14, 2026 —five days before the Alibaba Cloud Summit. The model ranks #13…
from the doomed-to-repeat-it dept When I was in high school, part of the mandatory social studies curriculum included watching the miniseries Roots in class…
The British government is preparing to ask supermarkets to freeze prices on certain products in exchange for easing regulations, which politicians hope will keep…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a revised crypto tax bill Wednesday that aims to update the tax code to better address crypto use…
Political action committees (PACs) aligned with and funded by the cryptocurrency industry notched a series of wins in three US state primaries on Tuesday,…
In brief Bank of America reiterates a “buy” on Alphabet with a $430 target—10.9% upside from $387.66. The analysts cite AI Overviews at 2.5…
The most infamous atrocity of the U.S.-Iranian war happened in its first few hours. During the U.S.-Israeli surprise attack on Iran on the morning…